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Where Catalan is spoken. The Catalan language is a Romance language spoken in Catalonia, Valencian Community, the eastern part of Aragon, the Balearic Islands, a small zone of Murcia (all of them in Spain ), Andorra, North Catalonia (in France) and the Italian city of L'Alguer. Together, those places are often called the Catalan Countries.
The main dialects of Catalan [1] [2] [3] The Catalan dialects feature a relative uniformity, especially when compared to other Romance languages; [4] both in terms of vocabulary, semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology. [5] Mutual intelligibility between its dialects is very high, [6] [7] [8] estimates ranging from 90% to 95%. [9]
History of Catalonia. The recorded history of the lands of what today is known as Catalonia begins with the development of the Iberian peoples while several Greek colonies were established on the coast before the Roman conquest. It was the first area of Hispania conquered by the Romans.
The current official category of "Catalans" is that of the citizens of Catalonia, an autonomous community in Spain [14] and the inhabitants of the Roussillon historical region in southern France, today the Pyrénées Orientales department, [15] also called Northern Catalonia [16] [17] [18] and Pays Catalan in French.
Languages of Catalonia. There are four languages with official status in Catalonia (an autonomous community of Spain ): Catalan; Spanish, which is official throughout Spain; Aranese, a dialect of Occitan spoken in the Aran Valley; and Catalan Sign Language. [1] Many other languages are spoken in Catalonia as a result of recent immigration from ...
Catalan Alliance. Catalan Alliance ( Catalan: Aliança Catalana) is a far-right [2] [3] [4] [1] political party in Catalonia. It is a Catalan pro-independence, and nationalist party, and also opposes immigration. [1] [4] It is currently the governing party of the municipality of Ripoll. [5] [2] [1] At the 2024 Catalan regional election, the ...
The Catalan counties ( Catalan: Comtats Catalans, IPA: [kumˈtats kətəˈlans]) were those surviving counties of the Hispanic March and the southernmost part of the March of Gothia that were later united to form the Principality of Catalonia . In 778, Charlemagne led the first military Frankish expedition into Hispania to create the Hispanic ...
